[game_preservation] Internet Archive Starts Archiving Commercial PC Games?
Martin Goldberg
wgungfu at gmail.com
Mon Dec 16 10:46:56 EST 2013
There isn't for the Atari related games, so your first assessment is most
likely right.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Benj Edwards
<editor at vintagecomputing.com>wrote:
> If I had to guess, I think Jason is uploading those commercial game CDs to
> force the issue (i.e. preserve them at all costs, regardless of legality),
> probably with the consideration that legal action against the Archive for
> those old games is unlikely.
>
> Or maybe IA does have some agreement cooked up with those games'
> publishers. But I seriously, seriously doubt it.
>
> Benj
>
>
> On 12/15/2013 3:36 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:
>
>> I wonder who that is ;)
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 15/12/2013 19:14, Jim Leonard wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/8/2013 1:03 AM, Mike Melanson wrote:
>>>
>>>> All of these seem to have a release date of today (December 7). So maybe
>>>> they're planning a big announcement.
>>>>
>>>
>>> A sampling of metadata for that collection shows "<uploader>
>>> jscott at archive.org</uploader>", so I would imagine you can contact that
>>> address for more details.
>>>
>>
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